Breakfast at Tiffany's – Because I Do Not Know

A Return to 'Normalcy'

I finally returned from San Francisco late last night -- only to be greeted by 200 e-mails from people who apparently don't understand that an "out-of-office" reply means that ... I ... am ... out ... of ... the ... office.

I hope to post some photos from San Fran next week, once they are all downloaded. In the meantime, here's a hot Italian guy in front of a phallic symbol dedicated to firefighters.

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Regular blogging will resume next week.

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Cocktail of the Week -- Cola Boy Style

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For his geographic and iconic knowledge of our great country, this installment of Cocktail of the Week is dedicated to Cola Boy. Don't be alarmed by the ingredients. Like sausage of Thousand Island dressing, sometimes it's best not to know what's in something. Just enjoy the taste. The drink is called the American Dream.

Ingredients

Ice cubes
3 measures red wine (try a California wine, since this is the American Dream)
1/3 measure bourbon
1/3 measure rossa vermouth
3 measures cold Coke
1 slice orange
1 maraschino cherry

Instructions

Fill a high ball glass half-full with ice. Pour in the wine, vermouth and bourbon, topped with the Coke. Stir gently and garnish with the orange slice and cherry. Serve with a stirrer and straw.

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There Was Life Before Stonewall

History professor Vern Bullough tells of the pioneers of the gay rights movement in this History News Network article. It seems the general "F- You" attitude dates back far before a few pissed-off drag queens at Stonewall:

A few individuals with power and influence were sometimes willing to be more open, such as the Boston Bohemian blue blood, Prescott Townsend, who as early as the 1920's agitated against the Massachusetts antisodomy laws and was a moving force in the theater movement in Provincetown. He was even arrested for engaging in sodomy, a fact which he reported in his Harvard class report for that year. He supposedly told the judge when asked to speak for himself, that there was nothing wrong "with a little cock sucking on the Hill."

I'd be interested if anyone has read his book, "Before Stonewall."

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We Have a Winner

Luckily, I have numerous drink recipes involving cola, as Cola Boy wins the second Breakfast at Tiffany's Cocktail Quiz.

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A few observations after 24 hours in San Francisco ...

1. Does Delta stereotype people traveling to the City by the Bay? Two programs on the inflight television: a VH1 "Behind the Music" featuring music group Queen and an old "Mary Tyler Moore." (Don't tell me Mary wasn't Murray's hag ... I won't believe you.)

2. So far, I've been trapped in the Financial District with client meetings. I have yet to see one rainbow flag, and I suppose I'll have to travel to The Castro for any family reunions. I did, however, spot a rainbow-colored Teddy Bear in a nearby gift shop.

3. In the same gift shop, no gay magazines. I don't just mean porn, I mean no Advocate, etc. Several issues of Hustler on the top shelf. On the bottom shelf, The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II. I mentioned to the shopkeeper that he might want to position those side by side as a sinner/saint marketing ploy. But since he didn't seem to speak anything besides Korean, I don't think he understood me.

4. I'll have about three whole hours to sight-see. I've drawn up a map for maximum efficiency. Golden Gate Bridge, the Wharf and Coit Tower are musts for me. Anything else will be lagniappe.

5. People here are amused by my accent. When they ask me where I'm from, I'm responding, "San Jose." They don't get my humor.

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Cocktail of the Week: Travel Edition

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It's contest time again. Next week, I'll attend a conference in a large American city. Use this week's cocktail to guess which locale and next week's Cocktail of the Week will be dedicated to you. (Answer coming Monday.)

Today, I bring you: The Cablegram.

Ingredients

Ice cubes
1 1/2 measures Canadian whisky (or blended whisky)
1/2 measure lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon castor sugar
4 measures ginger ale
1 lemon slice

Instructions

Fill the cocktail shaker half-full with ice. Add the lemon juice, sugar and whisky. Shake well. Fill a highball glass three-quarters of the way with ice. Pour into the glass and garnish with a slice of lemon.

P.S. Here's hoping I can blog while away.

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Cross Your Fingers

I pray for the day we can say "good riddance" to Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

While Election Day 2006 is a year and a half away, Santorum continues to fall behind in polls. A loss would severely cripple his fund raising and mostly likely end any '08 presidential ambitions. To make the situation even better, Santorum's potential opponent in '06 is Bob Casey Jr., son of the late Robert Casey. Like his father, he is a pro-life Democrat. I am hopeful the Democratic Party, however, treats this Casey less shamefully than it did his pops.

Casey, the son of a former governor, was favored in the Quinnipiac University poll, taken amid Santorum's high-profile push of President Bush's Social Security overhaul plan and his backing of the recent congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.

Casey was favored by 49 percent of respondents in the telephone poll, conducted April 13 to Monday. Thirty-five percent supported Santorum, while 13 percent were undecided.

Dr. Sabato agrees that Santorum is in trouble. He also has thoughts on Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker's chances for Bill Frist's open Senate seat in Tennessee.

But knowing the Democrats in Pennsylvania, they'll find someway to screw this up.

EXTRA: This Freeper post includes an article on the pros and cons of Santorum and Casey Jr.

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I'm Not Fonda Hanoi Jane, But ...

Jay Six and Michelle Malkin agree (apparently this has never happened before) that the Jane Fonda spitting incident -- no, this one doesn't involve her low self-esteem and her ex-husband's love of hooker threesomes -- is outside the realm of civil society. So do I.

Jane Fonda should not be spit upon anymore than those of her ilk should have been spat upon our soldiers as they came back from Vietnam. I once interviewed a man who was subjected to this treatment upon returning stateside. Twenty-five years later, just discussing it made him choke up and his anger was obvious. My uncle, who served his country for 20 years (including time repairing aircraft operating in Vietnam), still has a "Jane Fonda: Traitor Bitch" bumper sticker.

Yet we do have laws in this country -- and we once had manners. This goes to the anti-capitalist nuts who throw pies on people to the kooks who encourage 6-year-olds to hold up "God Hates Fags" signs. If you choose to violate these laws -- it could be deemed assault, although Fonda declined to press charges in this case -- you should be arrested and taken through the court system.

I repeat: Jane Fonda should not be spit upon.

She should have been, however, charged with treason for her actions in Vietnam. March in the streets if you want. Chant. Parade around with signs. You do not provide propaganda to opposing forces at the expense of American soldiers -- and her activities are well-documented. However, the U.S. government decided at the time not to charge Fonda. She has apologized for sitting atop the AA gun, although one could question her original "I-was-young" excuse -- she was 34 years old. But in 2000, she appeared to finally be more contrite.

"I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier, which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless."

People shouldn't buy Jane Fonda's book. They shouldn't watch her movies. They shouldn't give her one "red" cent. But they shouldn't spit on her. If anything, don't give her the courtesy of being compared to the brave men sent to a jungle far away, betrayed by their supposed leaders and then returned to a bratty nation full of people just like her.

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BaT Quote of the Week

"I'm a writer, I guess."

-- Paul "Fred" Varjak, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1961.

P.S. Time is against me today to write the intended post. Instead, check out the updated blogroll/links section to the left. If you're not on it and would like to be, leave a comment and URL. Cheers.

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Oklahoma City: 10 Years Later

Whatever happened to the infamous John Doe No. 2? A case of mistaken identity or a cover-up of what really happened on April 19, 1995? Former Oklahoma City television reporter Jayna Davis continues to dig:

And she located two dozen witnesses who identified eight specific Middle Eastern men, the majority of whom were ex-Iraqi soldiers, who were seen with McVeigh and Nichols. Two witnesses named Al-Hussaini as the dark-haired, olive-skinned man they observed one block from the Murrah Building just before daybreak on the day of the blast.

She also uncovered evidence that implicated several of Al-Hussaini's co-workers. One of these men was identified as sitting in the driver's seat of a Chevy pickup at an Oklahoma City apartment complex hours before the truck was abandoned on the lot and towed to the FBI command post. According to police records, the truck had been stripped of its vehicle identification numbers and identifying body molding.

I remain puzzled as to why we had a full-blown commission appointed to investigate 9-11, yet no one seems very interested in Oklahoma City -- and the numerous questions remaining about what really happened 10 years ago.

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EU: Thank God for Mississippi

Growing up in the South, I remember our response to surveys comparing the different states, particularly those ranking our educational systems first through 50th. Invariably, the Magnolia State was No. 50, causing inhabitants of Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, et al, to exclaim, "Thank God for Mississippi!"

Now, it seems, our friends across the pond can do the same (Hat tip: InstaPundit):

After adjusting the figures for the different purchasing powers of the dollar and euro, the only European country whose economic output per person was greater than the United States average was the tiny tax haven of Luxembourg, which ranked third, just behind Delaware and slightly ahead of Connecticut.

The next European country on the list was Ireland, down at 41st place out of 66; Sweden was 14th from the bottom (after Alabama), followed by Oklahoma, and then Britain, France, Finland, Germany and Italy. The bottom three spots on the list went to Spain, Portugal and Greece.

Alternatively, the study found, if the E.U. was treated as a single American state, it would rank fifth from the bottom, topping only Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia and Mississippi. In short, while Scandinavians are constantly told how much better they have it than Americans, Timbro's statistics suggest otherwise. So did a paper by a Swedish economics writer, Johan Norberg.

Which reminds me of one of my favorite bumper stickers of all time. Some Louisiana bureaucrat decided it would be great to promote the state by producing bumper stickers that proclaimed, "Louisiana: Proud to Call it Home." The jaded people of New Orleans quickly responded with this gem: "Louisiana: Third World and Damned Proud of It."

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Cocktail of the Week: Tax Day Edition

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This week's cocktail needs to be inexpensive, since many of us are unable to sit down from the reaming Uncle Sam administers today. And after piles and piles of paperwork, no one wants to tackle a complicated recipe. So for today, let's focus on a simple, low-cost and appropriately named cocktail: The Greenback.

Ingredients

3/4 oz. gin
1/2 oz. green creme de menthe
1 oz. lemon juice

Instructions

Combine the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and over cracked ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled, old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.

Repeat as needed.

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If 10% is Good Enough for Jesus ...

In recognition of Tax Day 2005, I bring you Ray Stevens:

Now I pay a city fellow to do my taxes, on account of that's one more deduction that I can take.

The postman brought my W-2 this morning. Why, this year they're claiming one-third of all I make.

Now I'm just as patriotic as the next man is. Yes sir, and I love that ole' Red, White and Blue. So I'll help to pay this rising cost of freedom, but I'll be daggone if I'll change my point of view.

If 10 percent is good enough for Jesus, well sir, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

I don't think it's one bit funny for them taking so much of my money and doing things with it that I don't understand. But one thing that is all mine is my opinion. Yes sir, and I want you to know just where I stand.

So I'll say again, if 10 percent is good enough for Jesus, well sir, should it be enough for Uncle Sam?

Some of those folks that we have sent off to Congress, well they think all you have to do is spend and spend. But you can't run a family, much less a country, with more money going out than coming in.

And that debt keeps on a getting bigger. Yes sir, we are all going to have to pay, so don't you laugh, 'cause one of these days you're going to look down at your paycheck and realize they have starting taking half.

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Freedom's Just Another Word ...

A year ago, John R. Bradley wrote that Saudi Arabia was liberalizing its attitude toward its gay citizens and visitors -- if no longer chopping off their heads can be correctly described as "liberalizing."

In part, the government has realized that the thousands of Saudis who have recently returned from the United States because of stricter visa policies, and who are relatively liberal-minded, are unwilling to countenance such harsh anti-gay policies.

Now, however, as Iraqis elect national leaders for the first time in half a century and Lebanese and Iranians protest en masse in the street demanding more freedom, the House of Saud decides totalitarianism ain't so bad after all. Bradley writes this week that:

A S Getenio, manager of GayMiddleEast.com, said at the time Saudi Arabia seemed concerned about the bad publicity blocking the site would bring, "at the time it was involved in a multi-million dollar advertising campaign in the US to improve its image". Now the al-Saud have no such inhibitions. The website is once again blocked, and the Saudi religious police - acting on "tip offs" - are raiding gay gatherings in Jeddah on an almost monthly basis. More than 100 young men caught dancing and "behaving like women" at a private party were sentenced this month to a total of 14,200 lashes, after a trial behind closed doors and without defense lawyers.

A few months back, an acquaintance of mine finally escaped Saudi to refuge in Canada. (He lived in Jeddah, which must be Saudi's version of San Francisco -- it's mentioned in every Saudi/gay article.) While I may joke with him about living in the "Land of Ice ... and Ice," I am grateful he is out of that sand pit in one piece.

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BaT Quote of the Week

"He's all right, I suppose, if you like dark, handsome, rich-looking men with passionate natures and too many teeth."

-- Paul "Fred" Varjak, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1961.

(Dedicated to my dark, handsome model friend J.D., the photo whore -- who doesn't have too many teeth and is not rich.)

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Third-Rate Romance, Low-Rent Rendezvous

For more than 40 years, visitors to the Gulf Coast's "Redneck Riviera" have wandered into a "charming dive" called the Flora-Bama. The bar's property literally straddles the Alabama-Florida line, hence the name. It's far from ritzy, but still probably the kind of place the Amazing Rhythm Aces had in mind while writing this song.

When Hurricane Ivan blew through last September, the Flora-Bama's structure survived. But the storm surge filled the building "bar-high" with sand, and the damage was too great for repair.

Never fear, however, as the owners promise to rebuild -- but not before sending the Flora-Bama out in style.

Hold your glasses high, lads and lasses, and drink a wee toast to the demise of an old friend, the Flora-Bama Lounge & Package. A real American beach dive is getting a real Irish wake, planned for April 16 at the Flora-Bama Lounge on Perdido Key. Then the building, which has survived many nonpaying, brawling hurricanes since it opened in 1962 at the state line, will get its last call from a wrecking ball and a bulldozer.

But don't panic. There will be a new, bigger 'Bama, which owners Joe Gilchrist and Pat McClellan promise will be "just as low-rent." The 20th annual Interstate Mullet Toss remains scheduled for April 22. "We thought it would be best to hold a wake so we can properly say goodbye," Gilchrist said Friday. "We're expecting quite a crowd."

We are a cultured and religious bunch ...

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Bring Back Yellow Mama

Eric Rudolph will get a lifetime of semi-leisure at a Club Fed near you. In the good ol' days, cop killers like Eric Rudolph ended up here, the Alabama electric chair. I vote we turn him over to the lesbians he tried to blow up at the Otherside Lounge and let them administer some street justice bull-dyke style.

This interview with Rudolph's brother, Jamie (who is gay), says his mother shipped them off to KKK summer camp, where apparently they learned some wonderful lessons:

Jamie attributed his brother's anti-government views to a period in the early 1980s when his mother hauled them off to a Missouri commune run by the "Christian Identity" movement, which espouses militant white-power views. Its anti-abortion stance, a militia member told me, comes "from the fact that the clinics are murdering white babies. If they were murdering black babies, they'd be all for it."

Nice.

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Cocktail of the Week, 2-for-1 Edition
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As promised, a cocktail dedication to Oliver Goldsmith trivia winners. First, Matt, who hails from Lafayette, Indiana, home of Purdue University. I bring you the perfect drink for him (and all like us): The Flaming Boilermaker!

Ingredients

1 pint beer
1 oz. whiskey

Instructions

Pour the whiskey into a shot glass. Whiskey won't burn on its own, so heat it in a microwave for 5 to 10 seconds (just before alcohol starts boiling). Ignite the shot of whiskey, drop it into a pint of beer and serve in a cold beer mug.

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And now for trivia winner No. 2, Cola Boy. He lives in Florida; his name is Cola. What else, but the immortal Cuba Libre!

Ingredients

Ice cubes
2 measures of white rum
Juice of half a lime (save leftover shell)
4-5 measures of cold Coca-Cola (or Pepsi if you must)

Instructions

Squeeze the juice from the lime half into a highball glass (or any tall glass you have). Drop the lime shell in and fill the glass two-thirds full with ice cubes. Add the rum and top with Coke. Serve with a straw.

For a different taste, substitute the rum with Southern Comfort for the Cuba Libre Supreme.

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BaT Quote of the Week

"It's a mistake you always made, Doc, trying to love a wild thing. ... You mustn't give your heart to a wild thing."

-- Holly Golightly, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," 1961.

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The Very Pink of Perfection

An Associated Press report reveals that:

The slackers on the University of Arkansas football team won't be wearing pink.

Players that coach Houston Nutt caught goofing off had been required to wear pink jerseys during practice. But Nutt says he's received some negative reaction, because pink is a color associated with the fight against breast cancer. Breast cancer survivors and their supporters often wear pink ribbons.

Nutt says the last thing he wants to do is to offend a cancer patient. He says the loafing Arkansas players might be wearing burnt orange, the color of rival Texas.

When I heard "someone is upset" about this, my first thought was, "Please, God, don't let it be 'The Gays' (hat tip: The Broken Hearts Club). We have so much more to concentrate on." Three cheers, it wasn't. Instead, the "people-who-should-be-worried-about-bigger-issues" whiners turn out to be ... the breast-cancer crowd. Good Lord, man.

Besides, I think we should demand that the pink-ribbon crowd use another color, since the fad only came along in the '90s. After all, if anyone has the right to claim pink, it would be gay men.

Never forget.

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S BONUS: Explain this post's title and I'll dedicate an upcoming "Cocktail of the Week" to you.

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My First Instalanche

Glenn Reynolds' world-famous Instapundit linked to my post yesterday on Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, creating my first "Instalanche" -- which is what the blog world calls the rush of traffic you receive when Glenn links to your blog. After publishing the post at 6:45 p.m., I sent Glenn an e-mail about it, since he often writes about Bredesen. I hardly thought he would link to it, considering my blog is a "nobody." Maybe it was the funny subject line of my e-mail -- which I should've used as my post title, too: "He already beat one Hilleary" -- but at 8:01 p.m., Glenn posted the link.

And the flood of traffic here began.

Before the Instalanche, Site Meter showed me with 128 visitors for the entire three weeks this blog has existed -- combined. As I write this, Breakfast at Tiffany's visitor count is 2,241. This chart shows my site traffic for the month, and it's pretty damned funny to me. It looks like the seismograph for the End Times.

I would be lying if I claimed I'm not pleased with so many people stopping by to read what I had to say. But more than anything, I'll wear as a badge of honor that Glenn gave me one of his famous "Heh"s, which I think means he thinks something is humorous -- or at least semi-humorous. (If not, don't burst my bubble by telling me otherwise.)

Many thanks to Glenn for the link and the traffic. If you don't read Instapundit every day, you should. He's the best at what he does. Oh, and now that the Instapundit traffic will die soon, thanks to the seven normal readers I have for being here when being here wasn't cool. ;-)

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The Hillary Alternative?

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is positioning himself as a "Red State" alternative to Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. With his interview published in The Sunday Times of London, Bredesen raises more speculation about his future as "The Anti-Hillary":

Bredesen, a former mayor of Nashville, believes his party has "somehow gotten itself divorced" from the blue-collar constituency it has always relied on for presidential success: "I've always felt the Democratic party was a kind of alliance between the academics and intellectuals and working-class men and women. I think what happened is that in my lifetime, the academics won."

As a result, the governor said, the party had lost its broad appeal. He mocked other Democratic candidates who think connecting with middle America means quoting a few verses from the Bible or being photographed with guns.

Bredesen is a lifelong clay pigeon crackshot, and everyone in Tennessee knows that his attachment to guns is real.

He added: "I think a lot of the time the answer they are looking for is 'Oh, if you just quote Matthew, Mark, Luke or John once in your speech' that somehow everyone will think you're one of them."

Bredesen's success in Tennessee is well-documented:

-- He holds a 60 percent approval rating in a state where George W. Bush beat John Kerry by 14 points. The Sunday Times calls him a "shoo-in" for re-election next year.
-- As governor, he has worked to reform the public health system, despite resistance from his own party. (He made his mark founding his own health-care management company before selling it off in 1986.)
-- He also is credited with improving the state's overall economic health -- without raising taxes.
-- As mayor of Nashville, he did much to improve the city's cultural offerings, including recruiting the NFL's Tennessee Titans, building the Gaylor Entertainment Center and building a new downtown library.
-- He is not a political "wunderkind," and his history proves he can rebound from setbacks. In 1987, he lost a race to become Nashville's mayor -- followed by a defeat in a congressional election. However, in 1991, he sought the mayor's office again and won. He then lost a bid for governor in 1994, yet rebounded to win a second term as Nashville's mayor. In 2002, he easily won the Democratic Party nomination for governor and defeated Republican Congressman Van Hilleary 50.6 percent to 47.6 percent in the general election.

He is not without his challenges. As a native Southerner, I have to point out that he was born in New York, although it was a small farming community upstate -- and he moved to Nashville in his early 30s. His wife does not use his last name, although as a survivor of an attack and kidnapping several years ago, she can be a symphatetic figure. Also, he's not extremely photogenic (i.e., not as pretty as John Edwards) and his national profile is practically nonexistent. However, he can change that by taking the above case to the American people. (Who had heard of Howard Dean in 2001?)

With some work, Phil Bredesen can be a formidable player in 2008, and there's a tradition of Southern governors as president -- Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler, Polk, Andrew Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Bush 43. So don't print up those "Hillary Clinton '08" bumper stickers just yet.

After all, Phil Bredesen beat one Hilleary. He might prove to be a pain for yet another one.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! This blog is very new, so there's not much to read. But feel free to poke around and comment. And a special thanks to Professor Reynolds for the link.

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'The Confederate Vote'

One short Associated Press article -- in fact, just four paragraphs of this article -- offer two brilliant examples of Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's amateurish staff (now three* years into office) and why (despite my eligibility and historical interest) I declined a relative's invitation to join the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Confederate heritage groups were initially excited when Gov. Bob Riley's annual proclamation designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month in Alabama dropped a paragraph saying slavery was a cause of the Civil War.

They were pleased because they considered the description of slavery historically inaccurate, but their excitement was shortlived. "It was a mistake," Jeff Emerson, the governor's communications director, said Monday.

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Broxton said restoring the language will hurt Riley if he runs for re-election next year and faces former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in the Republican primary.

"Roy Moore will get all of the Confederate vote for governor," Broxton predicted.

Ah, yes, that Confederate vote. Since the last Rebel (the delightfully named Pleasant Crump) died in 1951, I don't see Moore picking up too much of the old soldier vote to hurt Bob Riley. However, the governor is constantly making amateur mistakes -- which often turn into political blunders. The Great Ten Commandments Writer in the Sky seems to have gifted Moore with the only incumbent he could ever beat. And as a supporter of balanced history when it comes to the causes of the American Civil War, I can symphatize with Southern history groups' defensiveness. Yet as their agendas swerve toward the political and away from the historical, many show themselves to be just another pack of Lost Causers.

*UPDATE: Riley has actually been in office for two years and three months.

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Cocktail of the Week

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In honor of Jane Fonda's bedroom activities, I bring you the Pink Pussycat.

Ingredients

Ice cubes
2 measures gin
2 measures grapefruit juice
2 to 3 measures of pineapple juice (depending on your tastes)
1/2 measure grenadine

Instructions

Fill half of your shaker with ice. Add the gin, juices and grenadine. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled Collins glass (tall and slender). Garnish with a slice of grapefruit and a cherry.

Happy snatch-licking!

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Cold Warrior with a Cross

By all accounts, Pope John Paul II is in his final hours on Earth.

I'll remember him most of the courage of his convictions, despite my disagreements with some of his stances. As I alluded to earlier this week, without JP2's visit to Poland, the fall of the Soviet Union and the repression of millions would have lasted years more.

RIP.